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What precautions (if any) do you take when traveling with your electronics to another country or to a hacking conference? Noah and Steve dig into the idea of travel security. Your questions, our picks, it's a packed episode you don't want to miss! -- During The Show -- 01:50 Followup AV system - Kevin Conference PC Linux distro Ubuntu Mate 03:00 GDPR Compliant Forms for gathering feedback - Friso WuFoo Help (https://help.wufoo.com/articles/en_US/kb/wufoo-gdpr) Nextcloud Forms (https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-forms-is-here-to-take-on-gafam/) Avoid wordpress, industry moving to static sites 06:20 Users Respond to Jellyfin on Pi4 - Richard & James JellyFin on Pi4 works great! Transcoding can be limited on the Pi 13:25 ZFS Questions - Simon pushd & popd stacks Advantages/Disadvantages of ZFS Compression BTRFS Linux Ninja's BTRFS article (https://www.linuxninja.guru/why-i-avoid-using-btrfs/) Linux Ninja changed his mind! 27:15 User responds to NVR software - Pat Orchid Fusion (Multi Location) IP Configure (ht

This episode is focused on your feedback and your questions. Prebuilt NAS or custom built? What do you need for a vHost? Digital open source signage, and security camera recordings. We answer it all! -- During The Show -- 03:00 KVM Questions - Jeremy Steve's recommendations GPU considerations Creation/Destruction of VMs Vagrant Play, Document, Do it again 13:50 DIY NAS Vs Prebuilt - Charlie Used HDDs Odysee Video (https://odysee.com/@techdeals:4/usb-hard-drives-vs-synology-nas-—:2) 18:00 OpenSource Digital Signage - Peter raspisignage Github Link (https://github.com/boschkundendienst/raspisignage) German Talk (https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2021/de/programm/beitrag/193) We should put more money into open source 20:30 Termux on Android? - David https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/PRoot Steve's phone usage Noah's phone usage Apps & Privacy 27:50 Security Camera Recording - Glenn Still Early Stages Yes, bandwidth up gets saturated Data center bandwidth does not NVR in the data center Bandwidth solutions Store then up

Rolling Rhino Remix is an un-official Ubuntu flavour which converts the Ubuntu operating system into a rolling release Linux distribution. This solves an age old problem of getting up to date software on Ubuntu. -- During The Show -- 03:14 Smb and KDE - Chris D Solved! Ubuntu broke KDE by freezing FUSE 2 [kio-fuse Reddit thread] 06:30 Charlie Calls Out Steve On Free Speech - Charlie Free speech doesn't mean I have to engage with you 10:30 AV System - Kevin Industry Standard - Polycom/Cisco PC based solution + "boundary mic" PolyCom (https://www.poly.com/us/en/products/video-conferencing) Cisco Video Solutions (https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collaboration/video-collaboration/index.html) Boundry Mic (https://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-Cardioid-Condenser-Boundary-Microphone/dp/B0002BBOOS/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 19:25 Network Devices - Bhikhu Description of network Hub, Repeater, Bridge, Switch, Router, Gateway, Access Point, and Modem CLI Ukulele tool (https://github.com/noeddl/ukebox) 30:21 Listener

We spend most of the hour on your questions and your feedback. Elon Musk purchases and promises to make the platform more open! -- During The Show -- 02:11 Listener responds Hearing Loss - John Part 15 transmitters AM Transmitter (https://www.amazon.com/Talking-House-AM-Radio-Transmitter/dp/B00XV97XZW/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 05:30 Caller James Check out Fedora Spins (https://spins.fedoraproject.org/) Check out the "Everything image" (https://alt.fedoraproject.org/) 09:50 Listener Responds SMB Mounts in Dolphin - Chris D A way of mounting SMB share from FreeNas gvfs-smb for samba gvfs-nfs for NFS gvfs-mtp for Android MTP gvfs-goa for online accounts 14:50 Listener Responds About Maps - Charlie Organic Maps (https://organicmaps.app/) Organic Maps Fdroid (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.organicmaps/) Organic Maps Apple Store (https://apps.apple.com/app/organic-maps/id1567437057) 21:20 Listener Got a Job! - Howard Steve helped a listener get a job trueup.io Success is standing on a pile of failures Encrypted A

This week it's ALL feedback! We tackle your questions and your calls! -- During The Show -- Caller Josh Assistive Listening Device? Retekess (https://www.amazon.com/Transmitter-Retekess-Simultaneous-Translation-Transmission/dp/B087FJ48XC/?tag=minddripmedia-20) In Ear Monitor (IEM) (https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Professional-Transmitter-Rehearsal-Performance/dp/B09BMXGBLN/?tag=minddripmedia-20) Wireless interference Telex (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/370613-REG/Telex_71917031_SM_2_Personal_Listening.html) 10:30 Smoke Detector Feedback - Dave automationdirect.com sm120x 13:00 Ryan Follows up on Unifi layout - Ryan UAP LR Outdated? What speed do you need? Replace slowly as needed UniFi will freeze all settings on all devices until you remove outdated equipment Replace the Access Points TP Link Omada (https://www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/omada-sdn-access-point/) OpenWRT (https://openwrt.org/) ProxMox (https://www.proxmox.com/en/) LibVirt (https://libvirt.org/) OVirt (https://www.infoq.com/n

Fitbit announced their FDA approval to detect atrial fibrillation in their wearable. What privacy and security concerns does this pose and what can you do about it? We tackle your questions, plus the news! It's a packed week! -- During The Show -- 03:40 Response to weaponization of OSS - Jose Steve and Noah's response 14:20 Bhikhu feed back Open Snitch (https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch) 16:00 PFSense not getting DHCP - Jaren Untangle (https://www.untangle.com/shop/firewall/) Smooth Wall (https://smoothwall.org/) Shorewall (https://shorewall.org/) OpenWRT (https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/openwrt_x86) VyOS (https://vyos.io/) 23:10 Transcribe Audio from Video? - HJ Simon (https://simon.kde.org/) 25:18 Backup drive question - Ishaan Luks ENCFS KDE Vaults LUX Makeuseof (https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/encrypt-files-folders-ubuntu/) VeraCrypt (https://www.veracrypt.fr/code/VeraCrypt/) Fedora Doc on encrypting drives (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/encrypting-drives-using-LUK

The Weaponization of Open Source is happening but does it enact real change or are we hurting the reputation of FOSS? We tackle your questions, your feedback and this question this week! -- During The Show -- 01:55 Authentication Options - Jordan Single Sign On (SSO) LDAP Red Hat IDM/389DS/FreeIPA OAuth Front End Proxy 08:35 Digital Announcements? - Michael Software * Tight Rope Media (https://www.trms.com/) * Screenly (https://www.screenly.io/ose/) * Yo Deck (https://www.yodeck.com/) * Pi Signage (https://pisignage.com/) * Info Beamer (https://info-beamer.com/) Hardware * Argon One Case (https://www.argon40.com/en-de/products/argon-one-v2-case-for-raspberry-pi-4) * Buy a Commercial TV 14:38 Open Source Engineering - Zac BricsCAD (https://www.bricsys.com/) 16:24 Power Monitoring Plugs - Kevin Sys Log Server MQTT OpenHAB (https://www.openhab.org/) Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/) Purchased Plug (https://cloudfree.shop/product/cloudfree-smart-plug-runs-tasmota/) Tasmota Device Recovery (https://t

Erik Lietz, PE from Oakridge Engineering joins the Ask Noah Show this hour to discuss running an an engineering firm on Linux! Does it work perfectly? Does Linux leave something to be desired? We dig deep and discuss the merits of running a business on Open Source! -- During The Show -- 01:45 Hard Drive Questions - Friso Ask Ubuntu (https://askubuntu.com/questions/637450/cannot-perform-smart-data-and-self-test-on-external-hard-drive/692892#692892) No one uses SCSI or IDE today Linux Kernel Blocks ATA Pass Through on USB Segate Drives Noah and Steve's external drive methods 08:30 Router Firmware Question & Responding To Other Listener - Bhikhu Try installing kio-fuse & kdenetwork-filesharing packages Performance is not the reason for open source firmware Open source firmware provides longer updates and more features 12:50 Thoughts on Bitcoin? - Cory Decentralized We agree what has value Not controlled by government Blockchain Tech 16:17 Charlie responds to user & Speeding up internet question - Charlie Open St

In episode 274 we introduced you to block storage, in this episode we build on that to talk about storage types, and using those storage types with NAS and SAN storage. -- During The Show -- 02:11 Matrix Bridges - William JMP.chat (https://jmp.chat/) Matrix Bridge Encryption 05:30 Core Switch for Church - Kevin F5 Load Balancer 99% of the time other brands are fine HP 1950 or 1920 switches Dell Switches Pass All VLan Traffic 11:30 Google Collecting Data from phones - Charlie Register Article (https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/21/google_messages_gdpr/) Lineage OS (https://lineageos.org/) GraphineOS (https://grapheneos.org/) 21:71 Sunjam Asks If my local ISP is providing us 10G fiber...where do I get the hardware to handle it residentally? Commodity does not seem to support beyond 2.5G WAN when I checked, TIP Link or Netgear Orbi routers are costing $300-$400. PFSense/OPNSense (https://opnsense.org/) + 10 Gbps NIC Netgate 7100 1U ($1199) 23:50 JJ Asks There seems to be many anecdotal stories of how tech has i

This week we take your questions then dig into the releases that are hot this week. KDE, Gnome, Pine64, and System76 all have something for you this week! -- During The Show -- 02:10 User recommends Self Hosted Email - James Mailu (https://mailu.io/1.9/) 04:15 KDE Plasma Questions - Stephen GVfs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVfs) SystemD FSTAB mount SMB4K (https://smb4k.sourceforge.io/) 10:30 Trouble Running BricCad - Ryan BricCad (https://www.bricsys.com/) Malformed URL in AUR package Wayland permissions? strace (https://strace.io/) 13:25 Caller Jon NAS Backup Use a file system with compression Focus on data size MediaSonic Enclosure (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003X26VV4/?tag=minddripmedia-20) SpiderOak (https://spideroak.com/) Ice Drive (https://icedrive.net/) 19:40 Pick of The Week The Note Binder (https://drewtechs.net/projects/note-binder#Section1.1) Note Organizing Binder Multiple file types 22:55 News Wire [Open Source in Film Making] ProVideo Coalition (https://www.provideocoalition.com/how-open-sour

In this episode we answer your questions then explain that latest vulnerability in Linux! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Steve's Week iSCSI targets 01:50 Charlie asks about Liquid Sensor 12V Liquid Level Sensor Switch Relay Module (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003118991336.html) Very DIY 05:20 Contact Sensors and Home Assistant Feedback - The Linux Trucker Moved to ESPHome ESPHome (https://esphome.io/) vs Tasmota (https://tasmota.github.io/docs/) Nextion Screens (https://nextion.tech/) Tasmotizer (https://github.com/tasmota/tasmotizer) 11:15 Experience from a Data Center - Ronald Rack ATS (https://www.apc.com/shop/us/en/products/RACK-ATS-230V-16A-C20-IN-8-C13-1-C19-OUT/P-AP4423) iLO = Energy Vampire Flashable Smart Plugs (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JZDSLNC/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 17:40 Containers & Home Assistant questions - Tyler Docker vs Podman Containerized UniFi Controller Home Assistant Core and Supervisor Home Assistant Backup/Migration Code Ready Containers (https://developers.redhat.com/products/

In addition to answering your questions, this week Noah and Steve give you some tips and tricks to getting started with a home lab! -- During The Show -- IOT, Wikis etc - Shawn David Hunt (http://www.davidhunt.ie/) HC-SR04 (https://cloudfree.shop/product/ultrasonic-distance-sensor-hc-sr04/) ESP 8266 (https://cloudfree.shop/product/esp8266-wifi-dev-board/) D1 Mini (https://cloudfree.shop/product/wemos-d1-mini-esp8266/) Aqara Leak Sensor (https://cloudfree.shop/product/aqara-water-sensor/) Home Depot Leak Detector (https://www.homedepot.com/p/MOEN-Smart-Leak-Detectors-3-Pack-920-005/313196961) Honeywell Water Sensor (https://www.filtersfast.com/p-Honeywell-WHLDT1000-Water-Leak-Detector.asp) Citadel (https://www.citadel.org/) Zimbra (https://www.zimbra.com/) Nextcloud (https://nextcloud.com/) WikiJS (https://js.wiki/) Confluence (https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/guides/get-started/confluence-overview) Photo Duplicate App - Jeremy PhotoRec (https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec) Photo Prism (http

This week we talk storage! The more we dig into this the deeper the hole goes. We start with an introduction and and overview but this one is likely to be a two or even three part series! -- During The Show -- 01:57 Electrical Questions & Switch Recommendation? - Charliebrownau Internet/Location Requirements Power Self Sufficiency CT Clamp+ESP32 Cloud Free Shop (Cloudfree.shop) My Local Bytes (www.mylocalbytes.com) Aussie Ebay Links https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/152105203797? https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/274257143520? https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/353481397070? Switch recommendations HP Switches 2000 series better than 1000 Serial (Console) and/or telnet/SSH access Canadian NAS Server 15:19 Matrix Homeserver question - Russell Bots to check out https://gitlab.com/Sleuth56/Matrix-Community-Manager https://gitlab.com/Sleuth56/imageofthehour https://matrix.org/bots/ https://t2bot.io/ 17:00 TruNas questions - Brad ZFS Send 19:45 Lutron Caseta pt 2 - Andy Caseta System No neutral wire Pico Remotes 21:49 tiny Asked Do

Do you work in open source? Do you sell open source? This week Noah and Steve dig into the objections they hear when they recommend free and open source solutions. -- During The Show -- 01:00 Steve's House Energy Use Home Automation CloudFree.shop (https://cloudfree.shop/) Kill A WATT (http://www.p3international.com/products/P4400.html) 06:55 Grub2 and LUKS Feedback - Ninja Tech Arch Wiki Link (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#LUKS2) 07:51 Email Servers - Veritanuda Using a hosted email provider through your own email server Mail provider still has the email Encryption provides privacy 16:05 Cinnamon Feedback - aplatypus Cinnamon might be closest to MS Windows 18:22 Smart Switches - Andy SmartBridge Pro Hub Model L-BDGPR02 Home Assistant Lutron Caseta Integration (https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/lutron_caseta/) GuruMitts PyLutron Script (https://github.com/gurumitts/pylutron-caseta/) Does require Internet for setup 22:44 Used Server for Storage - Patryk Lab Gopher (https://ca.labgopher.com/) P

This week we tried to migrate our Matrix instance to our own data center, it didn't go well. We discuss our mistakes and what our next steps are. Your calls, your emails we cover it all in this episode! -- During The Show -- 00:55 Steve's Weekend Client Prep 02:23 Caller Tony Client received a police call Transparent Proxy Managed Switches DNS Resolver/Forwarder Firewall Rules Squid Proxy Dragon's Tail 11:20 VLAN questions - Tyler TP Link G105E (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N0OHEMA/?tag=minddripmedia-20) HP OfficeConnect Switch (https://www.ebay.com/itm/373794096000?epid=9030355100&hash=item5707dd4380:g:htwAAOSwhlZhk9rb) Multiple Network Cards Managed Switch Cisco HP 1920 Series Stacking 17:30 Light Automation - John All smart bulbs have a failsafe Shelly 1 (https://shelly.cloud/products/shelly-1-smart-home-automation-relay/) Smart Assistant Smart stuff at the switch GE Enbrighten Zwave Plus (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07226MG2T/?tag=minddripmedia-20) UltraPro Switch (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B3LXZJ9/?tag=mi

In this episode we talk with Bitwarden to learn more about this open source password manager. -- During The Show -- 01:00 Linux For Non Technical & Business Partner Question - Eric Linux Mint (https://linuxmint.com/) - Steve Kubuntu (https://kubuntu.org/) - Noah Flaws can be covered 5 Ds that cause a failure 10:00 How to decide when to use managed services - Doug Email Servers Documentation 17:57 Turn Off T450 Keyboard Backlight - Wayne Check UEFI Check Power Settings 19:17 Incident Response? - Jeremy Each Indecent/Play Book is Different Malware Process What do you need to set up from scratch Prioritize most likely incidents first 24:20 Kiosk and sharing information questions - Kevin Firefox Kiosk Mode Libre Kiosk (https://gitlab.com/altispeed/kiosk) Burn After Reading Me (https://www.burnafterreading.me/) One Time Secret (https://onetimesecret.com/) 26:00 Zerotier+NextCloud=deGoogle? - Mike Zero Tier Next Cloud Start on DO 28:55 News https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-softwa

Improve your work environment by knowing yourself. How do you convince a customer or co-worker that their idea is a bad one? Google Analytics gets another blow from the Austrian government, SUSE announces Liberty Linux a RHEL clone. You're calls, your questions, it's a packed episode! -- During The Show -- 01:44 Caller James Script for USB storage USE UDEV not Script 06:08 Collabora Online - Roger Nextcloud + Collabora (https://nextcloud.com/collaboraonline/) 07:08 Follow up Thunderbolt 3 Gen 2 Dock w/ X1 Carbon Gen - Zac Never needed a larger power adapter at Altispeed 08:55 Syncing Google Calendar to Nextcloud - Tony Easier to sync phone to Nextcloud Dynamic DNS 13:19 Using Coax Cable Useful? - Jon BNC Connectors + STI Video MoCA (https://mocalliance.org/index.php) Try a different brand of Ethernet over Coax 18:00 10GBE Nic using M.2 Slot - Charlie Innodisk EGPL-T101 NIC (Marvell AQtio chipset) (https://www.innodisk.com/en/products/embedded-peripheral/communication/egpl-t101) Product Store: USD$166 (https:

You filled this hour with questions, we spent the hour answering them. From VLANS to point to point radios, this episode has something for everyone. -- During The Show -- 02:27 Response to VPN - Charlie IVPN (www.ivpn.net) No "private mobile provider" 05:54 Why Default to VPNs - Ray Constant VPN Connection ISPs harvest your data VPN companies are motivated to protect your privacy Threat Modeling Deep Packet Inspection/ Man in the Middle 14:28 Wireguardian - Dennis Wireguardian (https://wireguardian.io/) 16:40 LUKS, EFI and Dual Boot - Josh Boot Partition must be un-encrypted? Evil maid attack 20:50 Remote Control Electric Motor - Jimmy Frequency Spectrum LORA, MQTT 29:35 User Responds to Spreadsheets - Paul CryptPad.fr Lots of "native apps" are just "wrapped web apps" Only Office backend 32:46 Another User Responds to Spreadsheets - Erik Zoho (https://www.zoho.com) 34:10 Vlans, WiFi, Baby Cam, Virtualization Unifi APs Unifi Setup Multiple APs for performance Axis WiFi Camera Synology Disk Station + Surveillan

Moxie steps down as Signal CEO, Snapcraft gets a rework, and a developer courrupts NPM libraries Colors and Faker breaking thousands of apps. The crew of Altispeed joins this episode to answer questions and participate in the tech round table! -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/268) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the disc

The team from Altispeed Technologies join Noah this episode to tell the story of how Altispeed Technologies was born, where it is today, and where the team is headed! 01:15 Altispeed Today Help Desk - Issac Installation and Support - Kenny & Peter Backend R&D - Richard & Simon Administration - Sarah & Jess 02:28 Epoch 1 02:30 Origins of Altispeed 02:40 Why Open Source 05:50 Professional Development Program 07:50 RHEL 5.0 & Red Hat 11:15 Dec 2009 Altispeed is Born 12:25 Noah does everything 13:50 Altispeed Mission Statement 14:55 Philippians 2-4 15:08 Matthew 20-28 17:00 Epoch 2 17:20 Altispeed's First Hire 18:38 The 3 Hiring Questions Do they get what we are trying to do? Do they want to do what we are trying to do? Do they have the capacity to do it? Value People and Relationships above all else 19:40 Buck Stops with Me 20:00 Employees are a mixed blessing 21:42 Epoch 3 Remote Services & Support Podcast Starts A Complete Disaster Success is standing on a pile of failures 26:18 Epoch 4 Covid 19 Hits 28:50 Goi